On Sat, Oct 11 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > >From my perspective the main gain of these patches is the increased > > maintainability and sanity of the code, scalability improvements are > > just an added bonus. > > and better code/improved scalability is a bad thing because... ?! It's a bad thing because nobody on earth cares about IDE scalability, from a performance POV a modern SATA controller is just better on several levels. I don't think anybody cares about IDE scaling on 8-16 cores or more, simply because NOBODY is using IDE on such systems. As such, trying to improve locking is a pointless exercise. And that is a bad thing, because code change invariably brings in code bugs. Then see previous mail on lack of coverage testing, and it can naturally be harmful. > > > rather like putting makeup on a corpse to me.. > > so _NOT_ true. Depends on what you think is the corpse. Since IDE is essentially dead and frozen, it IS a corpse and the phrase is then very appropriate. This is not a personal jab at the IDE guys and does not reflect on the (mostly) good work they do, just a reflection on the state of IDE in general. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
